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The history of today

JUNE 2


The June 2, 1887, Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported on a White House dinner in honor of Queen Kapi'olani. It was the first White House dinner for a reigning sovereign, The Advertiser said.

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1872: Henri Berger arrives in Hawai'i from Berlin. He led the Royal Hawaiian Band through the reigns of Kamehameha V, Lunalilo, Kalakaua and Lili'uokalani, the provisional government, the Republic of Hawai'i and the Territory of Hawai'i up to 1916. He composed the music for Hawai'i Pono'i.

1901: The First German Lutheran Church on Beretania Street is dedicated.

1908: Prince David Kawananakoa, heir presumptive of the throne of Hawai'i, dies in San Francisco.

1914: Gov. Lucius E. Pinkham is involved in an automobile accident on the Pali road. The Advertiser reported that when the governor's car approached the junction where the Waimanalo road leads off "around the bend came a tearing machine driven by Louis Silva, son of M.E. Silva, the undertaker." Silva's car hit the governor's car "sending the auto to within a foot of the brink of the precipice." The news account did not say whether anyone was injured.

1921: President Harding nominates Honolulu Star-Bulletin publisher Wallace R. Farrington to be governor of Hawai'i, succeeding Charles McCarthy.

1950: Two flows of lava from the Mauna Loa eruption that began June 1 demolish the tiny villages of 'Alae and Pahoehoe. Seventy-five people had been evacuated and there was no loss of life.

1977: As the marijuana eradication program "Operation Destroy" goes into its second day there are reports of some National Guard helicopters being shot at.

1986: Astronaut Ellison Onizuka, who was killed in the Challenger disaster, is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. The funeral and burial were broadcast live on three commercial Honolulu television stations.


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